Headcanon: Starfire is infertile
Characters: Robin, Starfire
Genre: Angst, hurt/comfort
Pairing: RobStar
He couldn't stand to see her cry.
Never had it been an easy thing for him to deal with. It tugged at his heart in an uncomfortable way, constricting his throat, making him restless.
He wanted to go to her, hold her, comfort her. Chase away the pain with words and kisses and warmth, let her now it will be alright, they would get through this together.
But he couldn't.
Not this time.
Not when they had been trying to conceive for months, trying to add to their family, trying to display their unyielding love and devotion for each other in the form of a new life.
A small boy with hair black as night and green eyes that shine like the sun. Or a little girl with long red strands and dark blue orbs deep like the ocean.
A child. Their child.
But they would never have that. Genes had an interesting way of combining and rejecting, a way that would never work for the two of them, as they had so painfully found out.
There would be no sounds of tiny feet running across the room in excitement. No bright smiles to wake two weary parents in the morning. No mothers day or fathers day or birthdays counting up, ever so eager to reach the double digits.
There would be none of those.
And Kori cried. Shed tears for those things that were alive in her mind but would never become a reality, as she buried them away in her soul.
And Dick watched. Reached out, just to pull back at the last second and hesitate, not feeling like he even has the right to touch her anymore. Failed her.
So he stays. He is next to her, close enough to feel every painful beat of her broken heart, but has never felt so far away from her.
It smells like tears and guilt and broken dreams for an unobtainable future...
hooray for pain